Now, I’m not saying that we don’t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what basis becomes supremely important. Will the rule-making flow from the matrix of voluntary exchange based on the ethic… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts, a deceiver, a means of unleashing vast evil in the world of the most unexpected and undetected sort… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“The progress of the last 500 years shows us precisely what the good ideas are: social harmony, human rights, the aspiration of universal dignity,… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“...the story of liberty and its future is not only about the raw assertion of rights but also about grace, aesthetics, beauty, complexity, service… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from it. All… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to support bad… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“The world has changed to permit ever more people in all corners of the globe to cooperate to their mutual betterment. The very prospect… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Here we have the heart of the difference between Hayek and Keynes: one knew that markets work to give us the best of all… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“It's WW2 and there are wage controls in place. Instead of health care, companies decide to offer employees shoes. Having absorbed those costs, they… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the idea of… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
